40 years after coaching a local minor combination to an historic first county title, John Fintan Daly is still fighting the good fight for football. At the weekend, Knocknagree celebrated their All-Ireland JFC success, but their manager’s not done yet, writes Tony Leen

It has become one of the iconic camogie photographs, up there with Angela Downey racing through to score a goal for victors Kilkenny in the 1989 All-Ireland final, despite having her skirt pulled off by Cork’s Liz O’Neill, or Lismore’s Gráinne Kenneally diving full-length football-style, sans hurley, in a bid to block a clearance by Ballyhale defender Jacqui Frisby in the drawn All-Ireland intermediate club final 25 years later.

Mayo’s unpredictability may well prove to be their greatest asset as they plot the downfall of Dublin on Sunday, according to Colm Cooper.

The tour will see the band bring The Joshua Tree back to Croke Park on 22nd July 2017.

Every day I take the same route.

Laois’s Colm Begley believes Dublin would find life more difficult in the Leinster championship away from Croke Park.

Donaghy’s been unlucky, but so have other Kerry forwards

There was no delay. Darran O’Sullivan and Gooch were still razing Kildare on Jones Road as Kerry’s medical team got to work on the James O’Donoghue rehab strategy.

The renewal of Dublin’s storied rivalry with Donegal takes centre stage at Croke Park tomorrow in Division One of the Allianz Football League. The counties have had mixed starts to their respective league campaigns.

Eamon McGee just couldn’t take it anymore.

Pace was the key ingredient in Cork’s second-half comeback and resultant All-Ireland victory at Croke Park yesterday, according to former Galway hurling boss Cyril Farrell.

Today’s American Football game at Croke Park is merely a stepping stone to bigger things

It’s very nearly five years since Poonsawat Kratingdaenggm floored Bernard Dunne and thousands of onlookers at the O2, but Matthew Macklin has promised that he is the man to finally bring big-time boxing back to this country.

Down the years there was a natural trepidation ingrained in Donegal supporters looking ahead to the next championship fixture.

It has taken around 20 years and nearly €285m in total repayments but it’s finally official — the GAA owns Croke Park.

David Wallace believes Croke Park must be given serious consideration as a venue for any potential Heineken Cup semi-final meeting between Leinster and Munster later this season.

Next August’s College Football Croke Park Classic will bring Bandon’s Sean Galvin home. John Riordan spoke to the University of Florida kicker ahead of today’s clash at Penn State. Getting to one day play in Croke Park was the plan all along for Sean Galvin.

Getting to one day play in Croke Park was the plan all along for Sean Galvin.

Sport needs to be partisan.

It’s Championship game No 76 for Colm Cooper tomorrow, 32 of them on Jones’ Road. Kerry may be in transition, but the Gooch understands that shouldn’t alter Kingdom expectations of success against their old rivals in front of an 82,000 sellout at headquarters

Back in the mid-Noughties the Leinster Council of the GAA found itself drawn to Croke Park like a moth to an everlasting light bulb.

The debate rages every year about whether or not Dublin have an unfair advantage when playing at Croke Park but Emmet McDonnell maintains it’s not just the Blues that benefit in this regard.

Clapping teams through a guard of honour, onto or off a gaelic pitch, is something very strange. While our rugby counterparts do it on a regular basis, it always looks out of place to me on a GAA pitch.

In a grubby little corner on the edge of Bray, down by the harbour, sits the town’s boxing gym.

How could it be that a former Footballer of the Year doesn’t know what it is to bus it into enemy territory on a big match day?

June 12, 1988.

Never mind Trap’s much-anticipated squad announcement on Monday.

“Into the face of the young man... there had crept a look of furtive shame, the shifty, hangdog look which announces that a hurling fan is about to talk Gaelic football.”

It has played host to some of Irish sport’s most celebrated moments, but future generations will know what it is like to kick and puck a ball on Croke Park’s famous sward without ever having to walk down Jones’ Road.

SO, a Leinster Club hurling final with none of the usual suspects.

FOR those dreading the rush to embrace the artificial intervention of technology into the storied corridors of Croke Park, there’s always Colm Cooper.

CROKE PARK could be set for an All-Ireland SFC qualifier double-header at the weekend.

FOUR of the five Ulster county boards in the North who did not attend Queen Elizabeth II’s visit to Croke Park on Wednesday have claimed they weren’t invited to the event.

THE GAA authorities have invited several high-profile footballers and hurlers to a function in Croke Park to meet Queen Elizabeth on her visit to Ireland.

BEFORE anything else, just consider this brief sample of the fare yesterday.

THE discussion about fencing Croke Park rumbles on and on, flooding the airwaves and the papers, rolling out, spilling across, very much like a... well, like a pitch invasion.

MUCH has been made of Down’s championship pedigree against Kerry since last Sunday’s draw but history of a more recent variety will have to change if the Ulster county is to maintain those bragging rights.

LEINSTER COUNCIL officials are not expecting the ‘full house’ signs at Croke Park on Sunday even though Dublin will be one of four counties represented on an attractive double bill.

ONE of the GAA’s longest running passion plays should come to an end on Saturday afternoon in Newcastle, Co Down when the association’s delegates are expected to give Central Council the right to admit soccer and rugby games to Croke Park in perpetuity.